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  • potential glitches extending Windows partition?

    From bilsch01@usenet@writer.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Oct 12 22:22:42 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    My HDD is 238 GiB.
    My PC had 95 GiB ntfs partition (Windows) followed by 2 ext4 partitions
    for Ubuntu.
    It was booting thru a Grub menu to select either Windows or Ubuntu.
    I deleted the two ext4 parts. Now there's about 141 GiB empty space
    following the 95 GiB Windows part.
    Now at start up the old boot menu doesn't display but a Grub prompt is
    there.
    Type EXIT at the Grub prompt, and it boots Windows fine.
    No problem.

    Now I want to DISKPART extend the Windows partition by about 98 GiB.
    If I use DISKPART I have to do this while Windows is running.
    QUESTION 1: Will that work?
    QUESTION 2: Will Windows still boot thru the Grub prompt (described
    above) or could the much bigger size cause a glitch?

    TIA. Bill S.
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  • From bilsch01@usenet@writer.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Sat Oct 14 00:31:55 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 10/12/2023 10:22 PM, bilsch01 wrote:
    My HDD is 238 GiB.
    My PC had 95 GiB ntfs partition (Windows) followed by 2 ext4 partitions
    for Ubuntu.
    It was booting thru a Grub menu to select either Windows or Ubuntu.
    I deleted the two ext4 parts. Now there's about 141 GiB empty space following the 95 GiB Windows part.
    Now at start up the old boot menu doesn't display but a Grub prompt is there.
    Type EXIT at the Grub prompt, and it boots Windows fine.
    No problem.

    Now I want to DISKPART extend the Windows partition by about 98 GiB.
    If I use DISKPART I have to do this while Windows is running.
    QUESTION 1: Will that work?
    QUESTION 2: Will Windows still boot thru the Grub prompt (described
    above) or could the much bigger size cause a glitch?

    TIA.   Bill S.

    I figured it all out. Thanks.
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